Friday, 11/21/08

LITS tour teaser and interview with Ilan Rubin

A few updates. If you need more reasons to have a LITS tour DVD to go to a Lights in the Sky show this year, there is a new tour teaser out just for you! Thanks Beta2k for the spotting and to NIN.com for posting. The Lights in the Sky North American 2008 tour wraps up on December 13th. Check the NIN tour dates for one close to you.

In other Vimeo goodness, there's a video floating around of the Lights in the Sky (song) soundcheck . Very cool. It's a portion of the song, but it's a big portion! Thanks to millionmilesaway for finding that and Cale for uploading and for braving venue security.

And lastly Jennifer from The San Diego Union-Tribune / SignOnSanDiego.com writes in to let us know they will be interviewing Ilan Rubin, soon-to-be NIN drummer, Monday, Dec. 8, on their online radio station. Listeners can call in with questions. There are some details at the end of the article here.

Reported by JessicaSarahS at 14:18

Saturday, 11/15/08

Meet Ilan Rubin

Trent has announced the new drummer for NIN in 2009 - Ilan Rubin. From nin.com -

"With great pride and excitement I announce the addition of Ilan Rubin to the lineup beginning next year. I had the chance to see Ilan playing his ass off at Reading and Leeds a couple summers ago and he blew me away. We recently invited him out to rehearse with us and he blew US away - the perfect guy to pick up the sticks after Josh leaves us at the end of the year.

Stay tuned for some 2009 tour announcements soon."

Here's the Wikipedia page on Ilan. Dude played for Lostprophets. Interesting... And, here's a video of a drum solo from a few months ago.

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 20:19

NIN HISTORIAN'S (23) Itinerary Sell-off!

This is the one you have all been waiting for.
Up for grabs is my ENTIRE Nine Inch Nails Itinerary Collection.

There are TWENTY-THREE (23) ORIGINAL Itineraries that are available-
TO BE SOLD AS A LOT ONLY. I WILL NOT BREAK THE COLLECTION. Please do
not even ask.

The Itineraries are every single one shown on this link:
http://www.theninhotline.net/nin_historian/itineraries.html

The "SIN TOUR" Itinerary is the only one not in the group for sale as it is a
photocopy from a former crew member and not an original.

Here are the terms:
1. These (if sold) will be sold as one GROUP- I will not break the set.
2. I have spent nearly a decade obtaining them and they are very rare.
3. Minimum offer on the set- is $3,000- If I have more than one offer-
it will go to the highest offer.
4. Shipping: Will be by Insured Priority Mail and will be $25
5. Payment: I will accept Paypal or a Money Order (No Checks)
6. I will scan nothing in them. The covers are all that need to be seen
unless you are the buyer. In all the time I have owned them, I have shared
nothing out of them and hope that it remains this way.
7. Serious offers and Serious buyers are requested.
8. I will be happy to answer any and all questions about condition- but I can
tell you up front that these are the cream of the crop and by far the most
extensive and largest held private collection of NIN Itineraries anywhere in the
world by a non-touring crew member or band member.

Email me at: nin.historian@gmail.com

Reported by ninhistorian at 10:52

Wednesday, 11/12/08

What you've been missing if you're not following us on Twitter

A few weeks (months?) ago, we mentioned that we had started up an account on Twitter. We've been posting stuff there that might not really be front page news, but might be of interest to perhaps more hardcore/OCD readers... some behind the scenes web nerd stuff, or occasionally hinting at news before posting it here.

Last week we gave away a bunch of aftershow passes to quick responders who were attending the House of Blues show in Atlantic City. And for the last couple of weeks, we've been posting a "remix of the day," hand-picked by Lt. Randazzo from piles of music found on NINremixes.com.

We're still feeling out exactly how we're using this, but check it out, maybe sign up for your own Twitter account. If you don't want to, uh, 'tweet' about your own personal life, impersonate a celebrity before all the good names are taken.

Reported by leviathant at 12:59

Dispelling Rumours Like Its My Job

Despite numerous reports and submissions via the Hotline "Submit a Lead" link (to my right), via both ETS and NIN.com forums, and via several Guns N' Roses sites, Robin Finck is not leaving Nine Inch Nails at the end of the tour to rejoin G n' R. This should clear up any rumours that the Finckster will indeed be "pulling a Freese" any time soon.

This has been a daily service announcement from your friendly neighbourhood Swindley.

Reported by swindley at 11:06

Tuesday, 11/11/08

Saul Williams: What's Next?

Jenna Wortham from Wired posted an interview she did with Saul Williams about the one-year anniversary of The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of NiggyTardust!. In it, Saul dishes on TR's interest in recording a follow-up to Niggy, the distribution model that was used for the album, and other projects that he's been working on. Check it out here.

Thanks to EVERYONE who sent this in!

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 19:30

Kerrang Readers' Poll 2008

Head over to the Kerrang Readers' Poll and write in Nine Inch Nails for any category you see fit. The results will appear in the December 10th issue of Kerrang. Thanks to sweeterthan and everyone else for submitting.

Reported by JessicaSarahS at 18:42

Enthusiastic journalist eagerly adds excessive amount of adjectives to concert review

We've cut back on reporting about every little newspaper review or preview of a NIN show, but Craig S. Semon's article in the Worcester Telegram is a hoot:

With his voice distorted, distant and devoured in a dissident mix of ghostly guitar squalls, pitter-patter percussion and gurgling synth chords, an urgent, immediate and in-your-face Reznor spat his stinging bile while embodying all our post-911 fears on “Letting You.” The razor-sharp Reznor, one of the most disciplined and consistent rockers when it comes to putting on a full-throttle performance, followed with the industrial-strength, sleazy disco opus, “Discipline.”


And that's just one out of about a dozen paragraphs on the concert. Spoiler alert: "Pitter-patter" makes another appearance further down the page. The gratuitous use of descriptors and an unhealthy penchant for parentheses, however ridiculous, make the write-up a fantastic - if somewhat absurd - read.

Reported by leviathant at 12:29

Friday, 11/07/08

Nine Inch Nails Documentary on the horizon?

Archaalto wrote in to tell us of this update to the Russell Mills (that's the guy that did the TDS artwork) website:

Nine Inch Nails Documentary film
OCTOBER 08
Mills has been approached to contribute to a documentary film about Nine Inch Nails being made by Angry Penguins Production Company. The Nine Inch Nails project is an independently funded, in-depth retrospective of Trent Reznor's highly influential early work. The producers are hoping to gain a collection of intimate and engaging interviews from producers, engineers, musicians, promoters, photographers - key people involved with NIN during the 90s era. Filming begins in November. Details of a UK DVD release date will be announced when known.


Link

Hopefully this won't follow the trend of really awful UK cd/dvd releases based on the band! Let us know if you come across any more significant information.

Reported by icklekitty at 05:40

Tuesday, 11/04/08

YEEEEEAAAAAH

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Reported by leviathant at 20:36

Today is Election Day. GO VOTE.

Well, the big day is finally here. We'd like to remind everyone who reads the site to make sure to find some time today to head out and vote on the many propositions & amendments, plus for who you'd like to see representing you in Congress, possibly who you want as your next governor, and, oh yeah, who you'd like to see as the next President of The United States.

We're not going to tell you how to vote or who to vote for, but please, GO VOTE. Google has a great resource here to find your polling place if you haven't received any info in the mail about where to go vote. Plus, make sure you bring several forms of ID, even if your state (Missouri) doesn't require a picture ID.

So yeah, GO VOTE. Thanks!

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 05:14

Thursday, 10/30/08

Tap Tap NIN Contest

From nin.com -

"Tapulous is giving away floor tickets for every NIN show between 11/8 and 12/12 - and one winner will get a Les Paul guitar signed by Trent. To enter, just submit a score of over 150,000 points on any track in the game. Each submission counts as one contest entry, so you can submit as many times as you like."

Details can be found here along with contest rules. Very cool.

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 19:15

Wednesday, 10/29/08

Tap Tap NIN Is Now Available

Head here to download it from the iTunes App Store.

Here are some details -

"The Nine Inch Nails edition of Tap Tap Revenge will go on sale in October and will have 16 specially selected tracks from Nine Inch Nails’ most recent albums, The Slip and Ghosts I-IV, many of them specially edited or mixed for the game. And it will of course have that special NIN look and feel. As far as we know, this is the first significant music partnership of its kind for the iPhone! The game will retail for $4.99."

*WHOA EDIT* Check this out - http://www.nin.com/pub/taptap/

"nine inch nails is currently developing its own iPhone application, scheduled for release before the end of the year. watch nin.com for details."

Another app? Interesting.

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 21:42

Kevin McMahon resurfaces at luckyprick.net

We got a couple of emails about this, and figured there are probably a good number of you who visit this site who might be interested in the news:

Over at the unofficial fansite luckyPRICK, they've received a track called Runaway Brain from Kevin McMahon's new project, ( sic ). McMahon was on the Nothing Records roster as PRICK, who opened for Nine Inch Nails during the David Bowie Outside tour, and Kevin shared the stage with NIN for the three "Night of Nothing" gigs immediately after that.

Anyhow, Runaway Brain, his first release in four years, is available as a free download from luckyPRICK until November 1st, so grab it while you can.

Reported by leviathant at 12:17

Tuesday, 10/28/08

JMJ talks about chewing gum

Upstate Link just posted an interview they conducted with Justin Meldal-Johnson here. It's a quickie, but in it, he talks about rehearsing for the LITS tour, Trent throwing shit at him and Gene Simmons' chewing gum habits.

Thanks guilty!

Reported by Lt. Randazzo at 00:35


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